Sean Eddy

Sean Eddy

Sean Eddy
Born Sean Roberts Eddy
Fields Computational Genome Analysis[1]
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Introns in the T-even bacteriophages (1991)
Doctoral advisor Larry Gold[2]
Other academic advisors John Sulston
Richard Durbin
Known for
Notable awards Ben Franklin award (2007)

Website

Sean Roberts Eddy is a scientist who leads a research group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus[1][7][8] in Virginia, with interests in bioinformatics, computational biology and biological sequence analysis.[9][10][11][12] Current projects include the use of Hidden Markov models[13][14] in HMMER, Infernal[15] Pfam and Rfam.[16][17][18][19]

Education

Eddy graduated June, 1982 from Marion Center Area High School, Marion Center, Pennsylvania. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology at California Institute of Technology in 1986,[20] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular biology at the University of Colorado under the supervision of Larry Gold in 1991 studying the T4 phage[2][21][22]

Career

From 1992 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge UK working with John Sulston and Richard Durbin. From 1995 to 2007 he worked at Washington University School of Medicine and has been working for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2000.

Awards and honours

In 2007, Sean was the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for contributions to Open Access in the Life Sciences.[23]

References

  1. 1 2 Sean Eddy's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 Eddy, Sean Roberts (1991). Introns in the T-even bacteriophages (PhD thesis). University of Colorado.
  3. ↑ Finn, R. D.; Clements, J.; Eddy, S. R. (2011). "HMMER web server: Interactive sequence similarity searching". Nucleic Acids Research 39 (Web Server issue): W29–W37. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr367. PMC 3125773. PMID 21593126.
  4. ↑ Nawrocki, E. P.; Kolbe, D. L.; Eddy, S. R. (2009). "Infernal 1.0: Inference of RNA alignments". Bioinformatics 25 (10): 1335–1337. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp157. PMC 2732312. PMID 19307242.
  5. ↑ Bateman, A.; Coin, L.; Durbin, R.; Finn, R. D.; Hollich, V.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Khanna, A.; Marshall, M.; Moxon, S.; Sonnhammer, E. L.; Studholme, D. J.; Yeats, C.; Eddy, S. R. (2004). "The Pfam protein families database". Nucleic Acids Research 32 (Database issue): 138D–1141. doi:10.1093/nar/gkh121. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 308855. PMID 14681378.
  6. ↑ Gardner, P. P.; Daub, J.; Tate, J.; Moore, B. L.; Osuch, I. H.; Griffiths-Jones, S.; Finn, R. D.; Nawrocki, E. P.; Kolbe, D. L.; Eddy, S. R.; Bateman, A. (2010). "Rfam: Wikipedia, clans and the "decimal" release". Nucleic Acids Research 39 (Database issue): D141–D145. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1129. PMC 3013711. PMID 21062808.
  7. ↑ "HHMI Scientist Bio: Sean R. Eddy, Ph.D.". Archived from the original on 2012-03-05.
  8. ↑ Kaplan, K. (2011). "A roll of the dice: Sean Eddy has his dream job". Nature 479 (7373): 433–435. doi:10.1038/nj7373-433a. PMID 22106470.
  9. ↑ Durbin, Richard M.; Eddy, Sean R.; Krogh, Anders; Mitchison, Graeme (1998), Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (1st ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.2277/0521629713, ISBN 0-521-62971-3
  10. ↑ Rivas, E.; Lang, R.; Eddy, S. R. (2011). "A range of complex probabilistic models for RNA secondary structure prediction that includes the nearest-neighbor model and more". RNA 18 (2): 193–212. doi:10.1261/rna.030049.111. PMC 3264907. PMID 22194308.
  11. ↑ Lander, E. S.; Linton, M.; Birren, B.; Nusbaum, C.; Zody, C.; Baldwin, J.; Devon, K.; Dewar, K.; Doyle, M.; Fitzhugh, W.; Funke, R.; Gage, D.; Harris, K.; Heaford, A.; Howland, J.; Kann, L.; Lehoczky, J.; Levine, R.; McEwan, P.; McKernan, K.; Meldrim, J.; Mesirov, J. P.; Miranda, C.; Morris, W.; Naylor, J.; Raymond, C.; Rosetti, M.; Santos, R.; Sheridan, A.; et al. (Feb 2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature 409 (6822): 860–921. doi:10.1038/35057062. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11237011.
  12. ↑ http://selab.janelia.org/people/eddys/ Sean Eddy's homepage
  13. ↑ Eddy, S. R. (2004). "What is a hidden Markov model?". Nature Biotechnology 22 (10): 1315–1316. doi:10.1038/nbt1004-1315. PMID 15470472.
  14. ↑ Eddy, S. (1998). "Profile hidden Markov models". Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 14 (9): 755–763. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.755. PMID 9918945.
  15. ↑ http://cryptogenomicon.org Sean Eddy's blog
  16. ↑ Eddy, S. R. (2012). "The C-value paradox, junk DNA and ENCODE" (PDF). Current Biology 22 (21): R898–R899. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.002. PMID 23137679.
  17. ↑ Sean Eddy's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  18. ↑ Reading Genomes Bit by Bit - Sean Eddy on YouTube, GenomeTV
  19. ↑ Sean Eddy Keynote OBF BOSC on YouTube, 2013-07-20
  20. ↑ http://selab.janelia.org/people/eddys/cv.pdf Sean Eddy CV
  21. ↑ Eddy, S. R.; Gold, L. (1991). "The phage T4 nrdB intron: A deletion mutant of a version found in the wild". Genes & Development 5 (6): 1032–1041. doi:10.1101/gad.5.6.1032. PMID 2044951.
  22. ↑ Tuerk, C.; Eddy, S.; Parma, D.; Gold, L. (1990). "Autogenous translational operator recognized by bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase". Journal of Molecular Biology 213 (4): 749–761. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80261-X. PMID 2359122.
  23. ↑ http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/sean_eddy_wins_open_access BioMed Central Blog: Sean Eddy wins open access award
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